ART21 defines itself as a nonprofit dedicated to engaging audiences with contemporary visual art, to inspiring creative thinking, and to educating a new generation about artists working today. One of the ways in which it does this is have several artists present their works and the steps they have used to create these works. They give you a brief, but wonderful insight into their worlds that I think would be extremely beneficial to students. One of the artists we watched in class did work on wood. She build large sculptures using many different drilling, cutting, etc techniques. For me, this was really neat because we didn't have anything like that in my school. Furthermore, she spoke about her drawings, which she has continuously worked on for years. How cool is that?!
For my future classroom, I can see using studies like these in many ways. First of all, it opens up room for collaboration with other departments, such as wood technology, and it introduces the idea of stepping away form an artwork for a while to be able to come back and explore the new opportunities it has later. That is something I believe can be quite hard for students to do. I like the way it exposes us to so many different perspectives that will ultimately make a better artist.
For my future classroom, I can see using studies like these in many ways. First of all, it opens up room for collaboration with other departments, such as wood technology, and it introduces the idea of stepping away form an artwork for a while to be able to come back and explore the new opportunities it has later. That is something I believe can be quite hard for students to do. I like the way it exposes us to so many different perspectives that will ultimately make a better artist.